Friday, March 19, 2010

meet meat#2

This lamb was born a couple of days ago to one of the lincoln longwools. A single ram. This girl had triplets last year. So far each of the rams have been singles, and it shows. They are huge. More than likely these boys will be available as meat animals, unless someone wants them as future flock sires. They are going to have incredible fleeces. If anyone is interested, let us know.

Also there was another jacob born sometime last night/this morning. Alice (our lead jacob ewe) went into labor last night at about 9:00 p.m. At that time she was still more interesting in eating, than having a baby, so we knew it could take a while. This morning in the barn was a new little ram. I'll update photos tomorrow. Lamb count so far. 3 rams 4 ewes. Better stats than last year.

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Mocabee Mills is a small homestead in Eastern Kentucky. We specialize in Jacob, Teeswater, and Lincoln X blue-faced leicester Mule sheep. We also share our farm with 3 guard donkey's and a Jersey milk cow, and a pair of Highland cattle. I love raising a flock of large fowl easter egger chickens for meat and eggs. Im in the early stages of developing a flock of Araucana chickens, large and bantam. These are the tufted, rumpless, blue egg-laying fowl. Honey bees, vegetable garden, fruit orchard, and homesteading are but a few of our interests.